This is a list of Principals of Hertford College, Oxford , including its two predecessor institutions, Hart Hall and Magdalen Hall.
Principal | Date | Notes |
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John Moreman | 1522–1527 | |
John Whyte | 1527–1535 | |
John French | 1535–1539 | |
Roger Bromhall | 1541–1543 | |
William More | 1543–? | |
Thomas Vyvyan | ?–1548 | |
Philip Rondell | 1548–1599 | first long-term Principal, establishing some independence from Exeter College |
John Eveleigh | 1599–1604 | |
Theodore Price | 1604–1622 | |
Thomas Iles | 1622–1633 | |
Philip Parsons | 1633–1653 | |
Philip Stephens | 1654–1660 | appointed by Oliver Cromwell |
Timothy Baldwyn | 1660–1663 | |
John Lamphire | 1663–1688 | |
William Thornton | 1688–1707 | |
Thomas Smith | 1707–1710 | |
Richard Newton | 1710–1740 | incorporated Hart Hall as Hertford College, charter granted 1740 |
Principal | Date | Notes |
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Richard Newton | 1740–1753 | formerly Principal of Hart Hall from 1710 |
William Sharpe | 1753–1757 | |
David Durell | 1757–1775 | |
Bernard Hodgson | 1775–1805 | last Principal of the first foundation |
Richard Hewitt | 1805–1814/1816 | Vice-Principal in charge |
Principal | Date | Notes |
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John Anwykyll | 1480–1488 | first master of the grammar school |
John Stanbridge | ||
Richard Berne | first Principal of Magdalen Hall | |
Thomas Coveney | 1553–1558 | |
Adrian Hawthorne | 1558–1567 | |
Robert Lyster | 1567–1602 | matriculated Thomas Hobbes |
James Hussey | 1602–1605 | |
John Wilkinson | 1605–? | removed by Royalists |
Thomas Read | Royalist appointee | |
John Wilkinson | ?–1648 | restored |
Henry Wilkinson | 1648–1662 | removed by the Act of Uniformity |
James Hyde | 1662–1681 | |
William Levet | 1681–1694 | |
Richard Adams | 1694–1716 | |
Digby Cotes | 1716–1745 | |
William Denison, the Elder | 1745–1755 | |
William Denison, the Younger | 1755–1786 | |
Matthew Lamb | 1786–1788 | |
Henry Ford | 1788–1813 | |
John Macbride | 1813–1822 | moved Magdalen Hall to the site of Hertford College |
Principal | Date | Notes |
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John Macbride | 1822–1868 | became Principal in 1813, moved Magdalen Hall to the Hertford College site |
Richard Michell | 1868–1874 | incorporated Magdalen Hall as Hertford College |
Principal | Date | Notes | |
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Richard Michell | 1874–1877 | formerly Principal of Magdalen Hall from 1868 | |
Henry Boyd | 1877–1922 | ||
W. R. Buchanan-Riddell | 1922–1930 | ||
C. R. M. F. Cruttwell | 1930–1939 | ||
Neville Richard Murphy [1] | 1939–1959 | ||
W. L. Ferrar | 1959–1964 | ||
Robert Hall | 1964–1967 | ||
George Lindor Brown | 1967–1971 | ||
Geoffrey Warnock | 1971–1988 | ||
Christopher Zeeman | 1988–1996 | ||
Walter Bodmer | 1996–2005 | ||
John Landers | 2005–2011 | ||
Will Hutton | 2011–2020 | ||
Tom Fletcher | 2020–2024 | ||
Patrick Roche [2] | 2024– | Interim Principal |
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Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the basis of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. She served as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1991.
Ragley Hall in the parish of Arrow in Warwickshire is a stately home, located south of Alcester and eight miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon. It is the ancestral seat of the Seymour-Conway family, Marquesses of Hertford.
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The principal is the chief executive and the chief academic officer of a university or college in certain parts of the Commonwealth.
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Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell was a British historian and academic who served as dean and later principal of Hertford College, Oxford. His field of expertise was modern European history, his most notable work being A History of the Great War, 1914–18. He is mainly remembered, however, for the vendetta pursued against him by the novelist Evelyn Waugh, in which Waugh showed his distaste for his former tutor by repeatedly using the name "Cruttwell" in his early novels and stories to depict a sequence of unsavoury or ridiculous characters. The prolonged minor humiliation thus inflicted may have contributed to Cruttwell's eventual mental breakdown.
Henry Boyd was a British clergyman, academic, and administrator at the University of Oxford.
Richard Michell (1805–1877) was an English churchman and academic, the first principal of the second foundation of Hertford College, Oxford.
Henry Ford was an academic at the University of Oxford, who held the positions of Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic (1780–1813) and Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (1788–1813).
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